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Ever since the Biden Administration unveiled its sweeping, $2 trillion American Jobs Plan on March 31, his team’s narrative has been notable for what’s missing. A key goal of the plan is to address climate change, yet largely absent from the sales pitch are dire warnings about a warming planet. In their place are breathless visions of new American manufacturing, innovation, and clean-energy independence.
In part the goal is to win vital labor support for the proposal. More broadly, the aim is to merge the long-siloed policy areas of jobs and environmental protection. Proposed investments span from retrofitting old buildings to multiplying the number of electric-vehicle charging stations.
Biden has tried his best to make an attempt at infrastructure reforms. But there is a fair chance that this grand infrastructure plan will only turn out to be a pretty PowerPoint. When it comes to the implementation, three contradictions are evident.